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Roman : Mount
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York Museums Trust, Rebecca Griffiths, 2014-03-12 09:23:08
Title
Roman : Mount
Description
English: TREASURE CASE : 2013 T99.

This Roman base silver denarius has been abraded flat on its reverse leaving just the obverse (front) displaying a beardless effigy of Caracalla as Augustus (thus dating to the joint reign of Severus and Caracalla, AD 198-209). It has been fitted within a silver mount decorated with eight evenly-spaced circumferential ribs. There does not seem to be any evidence as to whether it formed a brooch, pendant or ring bezel.

Age and Metal Content
The composition of Roman silver coinage produced about AD 200 was baser than had been produced in previous centuries, being around half silver by content - but this is comfortably above the Treasure Act threshold of 10%. For objects to be considered treasure by the Act they must be of an antiquity greater than 300 years.

Richard Abdy
Dept. of Coins and Medals
British Museum
15 May 2013
Depicted place (County of findspot) East Riding of Yorkshire
Date between 198 and 209
Accession number
FindID: 545925
Old ref: YORYM-49AAE7
Filename: 2013 T99.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/460152
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/460152
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/545925
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